To:G. V. CHICHERIN[1]

Written:Written in November, not before the 8th, 1922Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

      page592b.Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet ArchiveYou may freely copy, distribute,
	display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and
	commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet
	Archive” as your source.•README

ComradeChicherin:

Perhapswe should kick at Mussolini and haveeveryone(Vorovsky and the whole delegation)leave Italy, starting
toattackher over her fascists?

Letus stage an international demonstration.

Thisprovides a very convenient pretext: you have beaten
our men, you are barbarians, diehardsworse than those in
Russia in 1905, etc., etc.

Ithink we should do this.

Letus give the Italianpeoplesome serious
help.[2]

Yours,Lenin

[1]Writtenin connection with the following circumstances. On
November 1, 1922, a group of fascists armed with pistols and bombs
raided the Trade Department of the R.S.F.S.R. Mission in Italy.
They broke into the office of the foreign trade agent and at gun
point led away one of the officials and shot him on the stairs.

[2]OnNovember 1, 1922, the R.S.F.S.R. Mission in Italy sent the
Italian Foreign Ministry a Note of protest over the raid by a group
of fascists on its Trade Department (seeDokumenty vneshnet
politiki SSSR, Vol. V, Moscow, 1961, pp. 648–49).